Uganda, an East Africa country, comprises of 21 million children, translating to 46%of the total population. Many of these children are trapped in poverty and are not able to access education.
This situation has been made worse by Covid-19 pandemic, where some parents lost their business / jobs due to prolonged lockdown and the long closure of schools that exposed many children to abuse and exploitation.
According to UNICEF, around 1 in 10 school children did not return to school in January 2022 after schools were closed for nearly two year.
We focus on children from pre-school to higher institutions of learning – giving children a life time opportunity to support themselves, their families and the community where they leave.
We can only do this with support of people like you – who commit to contribute monthly, termly or yearly to ensure a child(dren) enrol, stay in school and complete their education.
How is our Sponsor a Child in Uganda program managed?
How to become a sponsor?
If you are interested in sponsoring a child, please send us an email expressing interest at sponsorship (at) joyforchildren (dot) org, our sponsorship team will get act to you with more information on how to join as a sponsor. Once enrolled, you will be given information of children that need sponsorship and other information about our sponsorship programme.
How much does it cost to sponsor a child?
Here is the list of categories to choose from and our team will be happy to give you more information about these categories where needed.
20 US-$/ MONTH for primary school fees only
30 US-$/ MONTH for primary school fees and requirements (books, school uniform, pens)
30 US-$/ MONTH for secondary school fees
40 US-$/ MONTH for secondary school fees and requirements
70 US-$/ MONTH for secondary boarding school
75 US-$/ MONTH for tertiary (vocational) education school fees.
116 US-$/ MONTH for university tuition on average. However, tuition varies with course.
Steps on how to sponsor a Child
- Click on “Sponsor A child Now” button
- Choose the amount you’d like to donate to sponsor a child. You can select from the suggested amounts or enter a custom donation that fits your budget.
- Complete your donation by signing in or creating an account, entering your payment information, and submitting. You’ll receive a confirmation email and regular updates on the child you’re sponsoring.
Please Note that :Joy for Children Uganda is Partnering with Global Giving , a crowd sourcing platform through with our local and international donors send their donations to support our projects.
STUDENT PROFILES
Joy is a bright and kind-hearted child who loves to learn and explore the world around her. She is eager to go to school every day and has a thirst for knowledge that is truly inspiring. With the right support and resources, she has the potential to achieve great things in life.Her mother, Margret reached out to Joy For Children Uganda seeking sponsorship for her six year old daughter Joy.
Margret lost her husband six years ago while she was pregnant. She has been working hard to make ends meet, but has been facing numerous challenges in providing for her children since her husband’s passing. With limited resources and financial struggles, she has been finding it difficult to afford the cost of her daughter’s education. Despite her best efforts, she realizes that without external support, she may not be able to provide the necessary tools and resources for her daughter to succeed in her academic endeavors.
Margret is reaching out to potential sponsors in the hopes of securing financial assistance for Joy’s education. With your help, Joy will have the opportunity to receive a quality education that will equip her with the skills and knowledge she needs to succeed in life. Your sponsorship will not only benefit this young girl but will also have a lasting impact on our entire family.
Elizabeth is a very humble girl that loves helping her mother with garden work and therefore she has always been described as a hard working girl, she is 17 years old living with her mother and her other three siblings her father divorced her mother when she married the second wife and told her mother that Elizabeth is not his child, he pays school fees for other children but neglected Elizabeth and her mother. Elizabeth’s father left her mother infected with HIV and she realized when she was already in bad condition.
Her mother struggled through farming and selling alcohol but later she fell so ill that she couldn’t do much more for her daughter ,Elizabeth sat P.7 and joined lira town college where they allow anyone to study but they don’t give you food and you don’t sit for exams .
Elizabeth’s mother HELLEN met Joy for children staff in the field and requested if they can connect her daughter for any sponsorship program to push her daughter at least to study and pursue her dream.
MELISSA is a very smart calm and respectful bright girl, she lives with her mother and her little brother in one of the villages in Lira District in Northern Uganda,Mellissa have passion in studies and loves school so much however her mother has been abandoned by her husband ever since Melissa was only three years old ,her mother had been struggling to rise and provide for Mellissa until she now reached primary three and she became more ill and not able to work to support her daughter for further studies, Melissa has been home since and she sees other children goes to school and she gets tortured psychologically .
Melissa’s mother Ejang Sharon Debra who is now a single mother and very ill reached out to Joy for Children Ugnda to support her daughters education so that she can pursue her dream as she as always dreamt of being a nursing assistant.
Become a child sponsor today and help Melisa t purse her dreams
Darius is a potential young man growing up with respect and love for others
Darius was born with Hiv and his mother passed on two years after ,he has been staying with her auntie who is very old and cannot afford to pay his school fees of only 15000 ($4) Darrius has always been on and off school duty to the hardship of his auntie raising his fees ,
I wake up every morning to see my colleagues go to school while am taking cows for grazing says Darrius
I never set my eyes on my mother and I don’t know if my father is alive or not says Darrius during an interview with JFCU STAFF.
Darius is 16 years old her auntie said some years he stays home and doesn’t go to school and that’s why he is aging and still in primary ,Darrius wants to continue with school and he’s is looking for sponsorship so that he can finish his studies
Marion is an innocent little girl who is always happy and smilingMarion moves in lira town selling bread from one place to another she moves miles to sell bread carrying them on her head in the bucket from morning to sunset looking for money to sustain her and her grandmother.
One day joy for children staff decided to interview Marion when she had taken bread for selling in the office,
Marion was born in 2013 and her mother murdered her father in cold blood in akitenino village lira district in 2019 when she was 6years old. Her mother is in prison up to now and her grandmother decided to take her to stay with her. Marion’s grandmother is old and sick she’s also disabled and cannot walk all she can do is cook bread from home pack them in a bucket and give Marion to move in town and sell, Marion said she wants to study so that she can take care of her family in the future, she said other relatives abandoned her and call her a child of a murderer
She is looking for support to feed her family (grandmother and her) and also take her back to school
Darius is a potential young man growing up with respect and love for others
Darius was born with Hiv and his mother passed on two years after ,he has been staying with her auntie who is very old and cannot afford to pay his school fees of only 15000 ($4) Darrius has always been on and off school duty to the hardship of his auntie raising his fees ,
I wake up every morning to see my colleagues go to school while am taking cows for grazing says Darrius
I never set my eyes on my mother and I don’t know if my father is alive or not says Darrius during an interview with JFC STAFF.
Darius is 16 years old her auntie said some years he stays home and doesn’t go to school and that’s why he is aging and still in primary ,Darrius wants to continue with school and he’s is looking for sponsorship so that he can finish his studies
